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<H1> Viswanath Poosala, Research Assistant </H1>
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Computer Sciences Department	<br>
University of Wisconsin  Madison <br>
1210 West Dayton Street <br>
Madison, WI 53706 <br>
Phone:  (608) 262-6629 (office), (608) 238-9564 (home) <br>
Fax: (608) 262-9777 <br>
Email: poosala@cs.wisc.edu <br>
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<h3> Objective</h3> 
<ul> A career in research and development of advanced database systems.
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<h3> Research Interests</h3>
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<li> Query result-size and cost estimation <br>
<li> Query optimization, query processing <br>
<li> Physical database design <br>
<li> Parallel database systems <br>
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<h3> Education</h3>
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	<b>Ph.D:</b>  Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison (expected 7/96).
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		Advisor : <i> Prof. Yannis Ioannidis</i>. <br>
		Thesis  : <i> Histogram-Based Estimation Techniques in Database Systems</i>.
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	<b>M.S:</b> Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin - Madison (8/92 - 12/93). G.P.A : 4 / 4. <br>
	<b>B.Tech:</b> Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India (8/88 - 6/92). G.P.A: 3.73/4.
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